SEASON II: Introduction

On season two, agriculture in rural Alaska and what climate change could mean for its future. Here you’ll get some of the complicated story of Alaska...

II.I CLEARING LAND

On this episode, we'll travel to the southeastern Alaska town of Haines, where farmland is scarce. There we'll meet two beginning farmers using all th...

II.II THE MIXING ZONE

On this episode, we'll meet Nasugraq Rainey Hopson. She and her project Gardens in the Arctic live in Anaktuvuk Pass, about 90 miles north of the Arct...

II.III THE BREADBASKET

The state has more land and a lower population density than any other. Dreams to clear swaths of it, feed the state and export crops to Asia have come...

II.IV A GREEN EVOLUTION

Then, we’ll talk about how Mike Emers of Rosie Creek Farm has seen Alaska’s agricultural scene evolve in the 22 years since he started farming. And of...

BONUS: THE CARROT KING & QUEEN

II.V HOMESTEADING

On this episode, we’ll touch on an important piece of agriculture in Alaska: the legacy of homesteading and how it’s changed with the times. The harsh...

SEASON I: INTRODUCTION

Out Here tells the stories of people who've dared to live life differently. Focused on the end-of-the-road community of McCarthy, Alaska, and the surr...

I.I HEADING NORTH

McCarthy, Alaska, sits at the end of a 60-mile dirt road in the heart of the country's largest national park. Hear what drew people here, from panning...

I.II BUILDING IN THE WILDERNESS

The turn of a faucet, the flip of the switch, the drive to the grocery store: things we take for granted. But what's it like to build it all from scra...

I.III LIVING IT

Alarm clocks, traffic, 9-to-5 desk jobs: Meet people who've thrown all that out the window and trudged down their own dirt road.

I.IV BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS

The solitude scares many, but the intimacy might be more intimidating. Living through a winter with another person in a tiny cabin is no small feat. A...

I.V LIVING WITH THE WILD

In the middle of the country's largest national park, people live with animals large and small, and they also live with the weather. In a place like M...

I.VI MAKING COMMUNITY

People come and go. Others stay for years. There's no government beyond the state. And there's all different ideas of what the community really is or...

I.VII CHANGE

What's progress like in a place surrounded by preservation, a place who's golden age is 100 years past? Technology, access, tourism: they've all broug...